Mean Little deaf Queer, Terry Galloway, June 2009, cloth,
$24.95, 978-0-8070-7290-5
"This is not your mother¹s triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir.
Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly
disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically
leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate,
it will hurt, and you will like it." --Alison Bechdel, author of FUN
HOME
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
Beyond Bogotá,
Garry Leech, January 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-6145-9
Kirkus Reviews; review in the November 1st issue
“Eye-opening look at the drug war in Colombia . . . Excellent reportage—highly
recommended for would-be journalists as well as those interested in geopolitics.”
NACLA.Org; the North American Congress on Latin America’s website will
be excerpting Beyond Bogotá in January
Saving Paradise,
Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, July 2008, cloth, $34.95, 978-0-8070-6750-4
The Winston-Salem Journal; the Religion News Service review was picked
up by The Winston-Salem Journal and ran in their October 25th issue
The Opinion
Makers, David W. Moore, September 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-4232-8
Jim Bohannon Show/Westwood One; live interview aired Monday, October
27th from 10:00 p.m. – 11 p.m.; Jim's show is the 6th largest talk show
in the country, is heard on over 500 stations nationwide with about 3-4 million
listeners a night, including a new affiliate in New York City.
Upcoming Broadcast:
Mid-Morning/Minnesota Public Radio; author interview on Thursday,
October 30th; 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. EST; live by phone
Upcoming Advertising:
Pollster.com; 2 months (mid-September through mid-November), standard size
blog ad
The Porning
of America, Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M. Scott, September 2008, cloth,
$24.95, 978-0-8070-6153-4
PopMatters; a comprehensive and interesting was posted on October 29th
“Approaching the material with a particularly clearheaded sociological
gaze, the authors map out the ways in which porn’s rise and eventual
cultural dominance serves as a microcosm for our sexual liberation, while
at the same time indulging in and making literal what are frequently our
most shameful desires.”
Weekly Signals / KUCI Irvine, CA / KUCI’s Public Affairs Radio
Program; live interview on Tuesday, November 11th; 11:30 a.m. -11:55 a.m.
EST
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon is delighted to be publishing The Man Comes from Outside (tentative
title) by reporter J. Malcolm Garcia. In nearly seven years of travel after
9/11 between Kansas City, where he’s a reporter for the Kansas City Star,
and a post-Taliban Afghanistan, Malcolm Garcia found an emotional and professional
center—one that, in spite of other assignments and war reporting, drew
him back to the region over and over again. Unlike fly-by reporters traveling
through the country armed with a sat phone and a ticket on the next flight to
Islamabad, Garcia settles into Afghanistan—learning its history, meeting
its resilient people, and forging life-long connections. In the midst of ongoing
chaos, he rescues a dog from being killed, naming him Maggot, and shepherding
him safely out of the country; he befriends his driver and translator, Khalid
(aka ‘Bro’), a relationship which broadens his understanding of the
complex situation for Afghani people. And, he gets to know six war orphans and,
almost to his surprise, commits to improving their lives. At a time when Afghanistan
is on the brink, Garcia offers a gritty, raw, and unsentimental memoir about
friendship, humility, and transformation in the midst of a war torn country.
Fall 2009
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